Middle of the Year Update

What did I have open in January and what is happening with it now? If I had known I was going to do this post then, I would've kept better records. After a little research, this is the list I came up with.

Projects and Status

1. Tin Man: Pirates of the Nonestic -- Currently posting.
2. "Tin Man: What Memories Can Bring" -- finished.
3. Biker Mice From Mars: Wars Are Won: Turbo -- finished editing, next in line to post.
4. Zy's untitled novel -- will be writing next.
5. Tin Man/Alice: Making Whole -- writing Author's Notes for it.
6. Tin Man: Not His Kink -- code to HTML.
7. Legends of Zelda: Hyrueliana -- editing for the Editing Lesson posts.
8. Steampunk story -- writing
9. Contest Submissions:
   • "Tin Man: Don't Know What the Other Hands Are Doing" -- Won third place and posted in my LiveJournal. Need to edit for the Library.
   • "Tin Man: Wide Open Spaces" -- Posted in my LiveJournal. Need to edit for the Library.
   • "Tin Man: Every Day I Am With You" -- Posted in my LiveJournal. Haven't decided if it will feature as a scene in the Tin Man: Dragons and Ninjas sequel.
   • "Tin Man: Medals and Luckdragons" -- Posted in my LiveJournal. This is a scene from the Tin Man: Dragons and Ninjas sequel. And no, I haven't started writing it yet.
   • "Tin Man: Where Did That Come From" -- won third place. Need to post to my LiveJournal and edit for the Library.
   • "Tin Man: Victory Ball" -- need to post to my LiveJournal and edit for the Library.
10. Biker Mice From Mars: Evil Jack: Till Death Do Us Part -- not started.
11. Total fictional words written this year = 33,961

I'm trying really hard not to work on all of these at once. Because then I get brain-fried and still only work on one thing at a time.

Contests: Where fanfics are concerned, they feel awkward for me. Generating ideas has never been a problem for me, but I do see where prompts can help other writers. Then it feels like all I'm doing is answering contests instead of working on the rest of the list--especially original fiction. So I'm going to rest this goal for a while.

Zy's Novel: I finally decided on this one because it has the most narrative actually done. Don't get me wrong; I have tons of background work to edit into the story, like making the aliens and planets exotic but scientifically plausible, and it will probably affect the narrative in ways I can't see. But the murder plot and investigation has been ironed out for ages. Time to move forward.

Weekly posting experiment: With Tin Man: Pirates of the Nonestic, I have been posting two chapters each week before posting to FF.net and it has been a huge flop. I don't know how Chris Dee gets it to work and I'm too tired to figure it out. Nobody's who's reading at the Library wants to leave reviews in the new forum. And I'm SO tired of writing up a newsletter every week. FF.net is designed to send out notifications automatically and lets you time uploads. I'm too used to send the whole shebang to the Library and being done! So the LiveJournal Tin Man fans will get links to FF.net on a weekly basis until the story is released at the Library from now on.

2010 Fiction Word Count Week 24

Yeah, it's been a while since I've updated and for no good reason. Let's get this all caught up for now.

Week 18

Progress Bar from Writertopia
Finished: "Tin Man: Where Did That Come From"

Week 24

Progress Bar from Writertopia
Finished: "Tin Man: Victory Ball"

Now that I don't have to sew like mad any more, my goal is to add more words to the tracker. Because now it is telling me I'll reach my goal January 12, 2015. OUCH!

2010 Fiction Word Count Week 17

Progress Bar from Writertopia

I wish my time off had been more productive according to this measurement.

Finished First Drafts

• Tin Man: Not His Kink
• Tin Man/Alice: Making Whole
• Tin Man: Don’t Know What the Other Hands Are Doing
• Tin Man: Wide Open Spaces
• Tin Man: Every Day I Am With You
• Tin Man: Medals and Luckdragons

I've had fun with the challenges, but still haven't been productive enough according to the tracker. My date for finishing 365,000 words has been pushed back to September 19, 2013. Oops.

All is not lost. I have another challenge entry for next week and a steampunk anthology contest to enter (look original fiction!) By that point, it should be clear what I will be working on next.

Tin Man: Pirates Notes 09

I don't know if people missed it, but I have started posting chapters of Tin Man: Pirates of the Nonestic. I'm trying a new for me technique of publishing at the Library and FanFiction.Net a day apart; not sure if I like it yet. You have your choice of reading platforms.

Tin Man: Pirates of the Nonestic at FF.net
Tin Man: Pirates of the Nonestic at the BookWorm's Library

Though if you want to keep reading at the Library, the easiest way to do that is to sign up at the Circulation Desk for the newsletter and then you can access the forums as well and leave reviews.

Also my poll could use some votes so I can figure out what to do about the music.

STEAMPUNK!

I will not talk myself out of this one: Steampunk Anthology Contest

So I've been blitzing the nets for inspiration in things steampunk.

Dark Roasted Blend: Steampunk Art Update
Steampunk Jennie's Etsy Store
Coal City Steam
The Beauty of Steampunk Fashion
Steampunk Flikr pool
Steampunk Fashion
Boning Up
BrazenDevice's Etsy Store
Steampunk Fashion Thread
Costume for Journey to the Center of the Earth
Steampunk Empire
Twin Roses Designs
http:Aradani Costumes
Steampunk Airship Pilot
Steampunk Gear Flickr Group
Dirigible Pilot - Orycon 2008
Steampunk Scholar

A lot of these links fall under "things to read later." What I need is my cast of characters. I have a rough idea of what I want to do, really rough. More setting than plot at this point.

Tin Man: Wide Open Spaces

Progress Bar from Writertopia

Contests are bad for my "really, there's no sequels planned for this" declaration. This entry is a snapshot of DG and Cain seventeen cycles after Pirates of the Nonestic. *head desk*

So yeah, it has some spoilers but nothing too damaging I hope. *crossing fingers*

Tin Man: Pirates Editing Update 11

Tin Man: Pirates of the Nonestic: Second Draft Chapter Progress

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Tin Man: Pirates of the Nonestic: Third Draft Chapter Progress

Progress Bar from Writertopia

I'm not making any deadlines for myself, but if this week continues to progress this well, I maybe ready to start posting soon. That also depends on the wiki development to stop being a pain-in-the-ass.

2010 Fiction Word Count Week 6

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I've been busy, but not with first drafts of anything. I had some kooky ideas of counting edits, but that has not worked.

What I have been doing:

• Saints won the Superbowl; at least a happy reason to get knocked off the loop
• Editing Tin Man: Pirates of the Nonestic
• Trying to set up a wiki on the Circulation Desk
• Real life complications with the budget
• Creating the language of Tala's adopted clan to test out Holly Lisle's Create a Language Clinic, which I have owned for years now and haven't actually used. Next will be building Mylte's language for Zy's novel.

Weather is turning nasty in my part of the world. With luck, I'll get a three-day weekend with power so I can cross more items off the to do list and concentrate on finding a new project.